Blakeslee



E. R, IVES. Toy Pissol n (No Model.)

NQ., @4231.435 Paanted May 31,1881.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

- BLAKESLEE & CO

., oEsAME PLACE.

ToY PISTOL.

sPEcIEIcArToN forming part of Letters Patent No. 242,415, dated May s1, 1881.

i Application filed February, 1881. }To model.)

i'o ctt whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD R.' IVES, of Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ot Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Toy Pistols or Fire-Arms, of which the following is a specification.

The object ot' this invention is to provide a toy fire-arm in which the danger of accidentally tiring ammunition with which it is loaded will'be lessened.

The invention consists in the combination, in a tire-arm, withv the barrel, thestock and handle, the hammer, and the trigger, of a breech-piece having arms extending rearward upon opposite sides of the ham mer to the stock and handle, pins or pivots and recesses or slots which said pins or pivots enter, whereby said breech-piece is adapted, when swung into a position in front of the hammer, to be carried forward by the hammer to lire the ammunition in the barrel. l

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side view ot a toy pistol embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The barrel A, stock and handle B, hammer;l

C,trigger D,and lock mechanism ofthe pistolsmay be ot the ordinary or any suitable kind, except that there will be such a distance between the breech of the barrel and the hammer when forward that the latter cannot of itself come in contact with ammunition with which the barrel is loaded, so as to fire the same.

E designates a breech-piece, which, on-the side which is the nearer -to the breech of the barrel A, is preferably provided with a rigidlyattached projection or tiring-pin, a. 1t is supported by arms E', extending rearwardly from it and connected to the stoof: of the pistol.

The 'arms extend one on each side of the hameured'to the latter by pins b, servin g as pivots, on which they may be swung upward and downward. These pins b are shown as extending from the stock of the'pistolrand fitting in recesses or openings in the arms E', but they might extend from the arms and enter recesses in the stock.

When the pistol is being loaded-the breechpiece is swung npward'into the position illusl trated in dotted lines in Fig. l, and then, the' hammer being unable to reach theammunition, accidental firing 'thereof is obviated. As soon as it is desirable to fire the ammunition the breech-piece is swung downward into'a position betwcenthe breech end of the barrel and the hammer, so that itcan beimpelled forward by the hammer to effect the ring of the ammunition. This forward motion ofthe breechpiece E may be provided for by making the recesses oropenin gs which the pins or pivots benter in the form of elongated holes or slots, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. l, so that the breech-piece and. its arms may 'be impelled bodily forward by the hammer, as wellas swung on the pins or pivots b.

-What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

handle B, hammer C, trigger D, breech-piece opposite sides of the hammer to the stock and handle, and the pins or pivots b, and recesses orl openings which they enter, the said breechpiece -being adapted, when swung into a position infront of the hammer, to be impelled forward by the hammer, substantially as specified.

EDWARD '1%. IVES.

Witnesses: i DWIGHT H. TERRY, C. BLAKEsLEE.

The combination of the barrel A, stock and l E, with its arms E extending rearward uponA mer and the stock of the pistol, and are se- 

